Articles by Chris Ayers

Candiria

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

An 18-wheeler smashing into the band’s van while on tour in 2002 could’ve easily ended Candiria’s career, but instead these Brooklyn-based...

Carcass

Choice Cuts

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

Before Arch Enemy/Spiritual Beggars axe-man Michael Amott and Firebird six-stringer Bill Steer watered down their respective aggressions, t...

Cathedral

The Serpent's Gold

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

With such a surplus of quality material, making a single-disc best-of for UK’s doom pioneers Cathedral is a daunting task at best, but Eara...

Sunn O)))

White 2

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

What was begun nearly a decade ago in the short-lived doom group Thorr’s Hammer is now built upon exponentially by Sunn O))). At the core o...

Various

Doom Capital: Maryland/DC Heavy Rock Underground

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

Decidedly one of the year’s best compilations, Doom Capital crushes with genuinely solid songs, not throwaways and lame b-sides like Rise A...

Karcius

Sphere

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

Unlike Liquid Tension Experiment and Transatlantic, Montreal’s Karcius are helping to bridge the gap between prog rock and fusion jazz with...

Sofa King Killer

Midnight Magic

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

After last year’s Lust Crime And Holiness EP on At A Loss, Akron, Ohio’s sons of sludge Sofa King Killer were nearly drowning in potential...

Thorr's Hammer

Dommedagsnatt

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

The inaugural release of the then-new Southern Lord label, 1998’s three-song EP was the solitary album from Thorr’s Hammer, a short-lived d...